While the next few months will determine how the government fares on the development index, many of its big announcements are yet to see light of the day. While the unemployment dole distribution has started, it has yet to reach all districts and a large number of beneficiaries are still being shortlisted. Six months down the line, the laptop-and-tablets-for-schoolchildren scheme is still on the shelves. The tender has now been invited and officials are hopeful that they may begin distributing the devices by November.

While these are mostly administrative decisions, which are still to be taken, the government has yet to appoint more than 200 members and chairpersons of various corporations and public enterprises. "The CM had given the go-ahead to appoint some of his team members but they are yet to assume charge.

The appointments seem to be caught up as there is a list of Shivpal Yadav, another of Khan besides that of Ram Gopal Yadav. Then the CM has his own followers to adjust and Netaji [Mulayam] would also have some of his favourites. So the entire matter seems stuck," says a senior party leader.

It might still be early to shape a definitive view of Akhilesh Yadav as a real CM-in-the-making but clearly he has yet to put his stamp on governance. To give him his due, that's speaks more about the father's continuing grip than the son's capabilities.